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In a Los Angeles election with an assortment of winners, no one at City Hall had a more triumphant Tuesday night than City Council President Herb Wesson.
Voters reelected Wesson in a landslide, giving the former state Assembly speaker a third and...

Riva Kim, 38, an attorney and downtown resident, was one of the fewer than 10% of registered voters who cast ballots in Tuesday’s Los Angeles city election. She was surprised to hear that she was part of a tiny minority.
“Really? That’...

For months, two of Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar’s opponents did their best to remind voters of the sexual harassment case filed against him.
Former county Supervisor Gloria Molina repeatedly mentioned the lawsuit, filed by a former...

In a Los Angeles election with an assortment of winners, no one at City Hall had a more triumphant Tuesday night than Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson.
Voters reelected Wesson in a landslide, giving the former assembly speaker a third and final term in office. They overwhelmingly approved Wesson’s two ballot measures to consolidate city elections with state and federal contests. And, by changing the election date, Angelenos gave Wesson an extra 18 months in office, allowing him to...

Just one Los Angeles City Council race was headed to a runoff, with incumbents cruising to easy victories in five other contests around the city.
Based on Tuesday’s election results, the May 19 runoff to replace termed-out Councilman Tom LaBonge in the 4th District, which includes Los Feliz, Miracle Mile and Sherman Oaks, will likely be between Carolyn Ramsay, a former LaBonge aide, and community health director David Ryu. That could change as more provisional and vote-by-mail ballots are counted....

In an election Tuesday where voters will weigh in on an idea to boost L.A.’s low voter turnout, it remains an open question how many people will go to the polls.
With a late winter storm predicted for the weekend, candidates and their teams were scrambling to phone voters and knock on as many doors as possible. "We'll be out there, rain or shine,'' said Karren Lane, a consultant to Marqueece Harris-Dawson, one of four candidates hoping to replace retiring South Los Angeles Councilman Bernard C....

Don't sit this election out. It's true that there's no high-profile mayor's race or marijuana ballot measure, but Tuesday's election could lead to one of the most significant changes to local government in years. If Charter Amendments 1 and 2 pass, city and school board elections will move, beginning in 2020, from March and May of odd-numbered years to June and November of even-numbered years — to coincide with state and federal elections. The idea is to increase the dismally low number of people...

Unlimited outside spending in the campaigns for seven Los Angeles City Council seats has topped $1.2 million, with the vast majority of the money going to help incumbents at City Hall.
The spending has only added to the lopsided nature of the contests in Tuesday's election. On the Eastside, total campaign donations to Councilman Jose Huizar — both direct contributions and independent expenditures — exceed $1.3 million. That amounts to a more than 6 to 1 financial advantage for Huizar over...

A Los Angeles City Council planning committee on Tuesday postponed a closely watched decision on a set of temporary ordinances intended to limit the construction of "McMansions" in 20 neighborhoods.
After hearing dozens of speakers pro and con, Councilmen Gilbert A. Cedillo and Mitchell Englander agreed to put off a vote on whether to recommend that the full council pass the so-called interim control ordinances. Panel Chairman Jose Huizar was absent.
Adrian Scott Fine, director of advocacy for the Los...